Call for Papers Deadline: Internet Governance – Nairobi, Kenya

Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) (“a global network for scholars of Internet governance”) presents the GigaNet Sixth Annual Symposium in cooperation with Research ICT Africa. The event will take place Sept. 26, 2011, in Nairobi, Kenya (one day before the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in the same city).

Organizers encourage submissions on the following topics:

  • The first 5 years of the IGF: Taking stock and the way forward
  • Developing countries perspectives on internet governance
  • New approaches to theorizing internet governance
  • Between global and local: the question of territory in internet governance
  • Freedom of Expression / Right to Information
  • New approaches to Human Rights on the Internet
  • Internet governance and political uprising
  • International relations and cyber-security
  • Online privacy and dataveillance
  • Cloud Governance

Other proposals on more general questions of Global Internet Governance will also be considered.

Abstracts are due by July 15, 2011. mw